These instructions will help you remove hard drive, memory, wireless card and keyboard from a HP Pavilion dv9000 series laptop. All these components, except the keyboard, can be accessed through the bottom of the laptop.

In the next guide I will explain how to disassemble laptop display panel and remove inverter board with LCD screen.

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This disassembly guide published by LCDS4LESS explains how to remove and replace laptop LCD screen. The guide was created for a Toshiba laptop but you can use it for any other brand because the LCD screen removal procedure is very similar for most laptops.
Download instructions here, it’s a 2.60MB pdf file.

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This guide will help you to dismantle a Toshiba Tecra A4 notebook. This partial notebook disassembly guide should be enough for most home users to replace commonly failing parts such as hard drive, memory and keyboard.
The hard drive and both memory modules could be accessed through the bottom of the notebook, just remove the covers.
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This guide will help you take apart a Fujitsu LifeBook V series notebook. It will show how you can remove the hard drive, memory modules, DVD drive and keyboard. Also, I’ll show how you can clean the heat sink. I have created this guide while taking apart a Fujitsu LifeBook V1010.
The badge on the front said “LIFEBOOK V Series” so I assume this guide should work for other modes in the LifeBook V line.
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The following disassembly guide will explain how to take apart a Sony Vaio PCG-K series notebooks. I created this guide while taking apart a Sony Vaio PCG-K25 notebook but I think you can use the same disassembly steps for all notebooks in PCG-K line.
The main reason to open up the laptop was replacing broken power jack. Proceed disassembly on your own risk.

Before you start laptop disassembly, unplug the AC adapter and remove the battery.

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This repair guide will help you to tighten loose hinges on an Aluminum PowerBook.

If you’ve got an Aluminium Powerbook, they are a great machine, but after a few years the hinge can get a little loose. Thankfully this is not like the old Titanium Powerbooks where the hinge was broken, it is just a matter of a few screws that need to be tightened!

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This guide will help you take apart a Sony Vaio Z1 series notebook. In this notebook all so-called user replaceable parts such as memory module, hard drive, DVD drive, etc… are hidden under the top cover making them hard to access or even find.

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These instructions explain how to take apart a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ220 series laptop. I had to replace the DC-IN power jack because it was broken. The jack is soldered to the power harness and can be easily replaced if you have basic soldering skills. Use this guide on your own risk.

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This tutorial explains how replace screen inverter in a Gateway AKA eMachines laptop. The display panel disassembly procedure will be the same as for many other models.

If I look really close at the screen I can still see that the LCD is still working - it’s just the backlight that’s dead. Not only that but it comes back on briefly (for about a minute) before dying again. Now, there are basically 2 parts to the backlight, the backlight itself and the Inverter Board that supplies power to the bulb.

My comment: This failure is very typical for may different laptop brands and most likely indicates a problem with the inverter board. Backlight bulbs fail too but not as often as inverter boards.

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This tutorial explains how to repair or replace broken display hinges on HP Pavilion dv9000 series notebook. It’s a nice addition to the official maintenance and service guide (PDF file 3.72MB) for dv9000 and dv9200 notebook PC.

Well like everybody else who has purchased a HP DV9000 laptop, my left hinge has cracked and in doing so, also broke the embedded locknuts in the top LCD cover. I have had this HP DV 9000 for under a year but refuse to send it back for service. I haven’t tried to contact HP after reading all the hell stories everybody else have had in doing so… So being creative and having all the tools, I decided to give it a shot to fix it myself after looking for parts and seeing a $200+ price tag. My laptop now closes like new and the monitor turns off when in closed position.

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